Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...found in two letters printed herewith, one from Mr. Dean and the other from Mr. Spalding. We certainly think it undesirable that gentlemen should engage in sports on such terms; butin view of the fact that members of this exhibition baseball team came also from Yale and Princeton, we see no ground for special condemnation of the Harvard players...
...cross this territory. The frost is never severe; the mean temperature is 620, and the summers are long and hot. The soil of the arid region is rich, and the opportunities for irrigation are great. The population of the United States is rapidly increasing, and the rising generation will see it reach 200,000,000. The arid region alone, if properly cultivated, could supply them all with the necessaries of life...
...regret if this trip causes you and your friends any trouble, but you can rest assured that I shall put myself to any amount of trouble, and go before any Examining Board that requests it, and testify to the facts in the matter. I shall be very glad to see you if you come to New York...
...fall the statement which the Athletic committee has been preparing during the last three or four weeks. The report itself needs no explanation. It presents a full and can did reply to the manifesto which Princeton made public a few weeks ago, and is, as far as we can see, a complete vindication of Harvard's policy thus far this year. The completenss of the evidence in Harvard's favor will prove a surprise even to those who have been all along the most sanguine. Practically every doubtful question has been satisfactorily answered, and certainly every serious charge has been...
...life here a man has the advantages and collected thought of the past systematized for his use, and in the face of this beneficence he feels humble. His hope that he may deserve this is in his attachment to an unknown future, when men shall see the light and know the truth better because of his life. This is not a time of achievement but of preparation. In this sense the actual Harvard is a promise of the Harvard that...